Sales-slip and blank therefor.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL SHOUP AND SAMUEL R. SHOUP, OF 'WILMINGTON, DELAWARE.

SALES-SLIP AND BLANK THEREFOR.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 701,407, dated June 3,1902. Application filed February 8, 1901. Serial No- 46,552. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL SHOUP and SAMUEL R. SHOUP, citizens of theUnited States of America, and residents of WVilmington, in the county ofNewcastle, in the State of Delaware, have invented Improved Sales- Slipsand Blanks Therefor, of which the following is a specification.

The object of our invention is to simplify, economize, and otherwiseimprove the manufacture of check sales-slips and to give a moreconvenient product. This object we attain in the manner which we willnow describe.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a diagram illustrating themode of producing our improvedroll of blanks for making checksales-slips. Fig. 2 is a perspective viewillustrating the faces of threeblanks for use in making a triplicate check sales-slip, and Fig. 3 is aface View of the top sheet of a check sales-slip produced from theblanks shown in Fig. 2. Fig. a is a face view, on a reduced scale, of astrip of the ruled web with an indication of the printing at one end.

In the accompanying drawings we have shown our invention as applied tothe production of a triplicate check sales-slip, but it will beunderstood without special description that our invention is equallyapplicable to the production of duplicate or other like sales-slips.

One of the features of our invention consists in the production ofblanks ready and convenient for printing, numbering, and cutting up intoduplicate or triplicate check sales-slips.

For the making of triplicate blanks we may employ an arrangement ofmechanism. such as illustrated in Fig.1. In this figure, A, B, and O arethree separate rolls or wound-up webs of paper of the three kindsdesired for the three sheets of the final triplicate salesslip, thepaper of the web A being for the top sheet, that of 0 being for thebottom sheet, and that of B being for the intermediate sheet. The web Afrom the roll A is shown as passing first over a guide-r0111, and thencebetween perforating or scoring rollers S, and thence under suitableruling-pens R, over the roll 2, then over the rollers 3 and 4., thenback of a guide-roll 5, and thence to be wound up with the other websinto the roll W by means of the winding-drum D. The web B from the rollB is shown as passing between perforating or scoring rollers S andaround a roller 2, where it may receive a line of paste from thepasting-rolls P if the webs A and B are to be pasted together. Then theweb B passes with the web A over the roller 4' and under the roller 5 tothe winding-drum. The web 0 from the roll 0 is shown passing over aroller 0, over which may be arranged a ruling means R, and thence theweb passes between the pair of scoring or perforating rolls S thencearound the roller 3 and under the other two websA and B, and passes withthem over the roller 4: and under the roller 5 to the Winding-up drum.If a line or lines of paste be applied to the upper side of this web 0,it will be accordingly caused to adhere to the intermediate web B.

In Fig. 2 we have represented the appearance of the faces of the severalWebs A, B, and C, this view being made as if the end of the intermediateweb B showed beyond and to the left of the end of the Web A, and in likemanner the end of the web 0 is shown as if projecting to the left beyondthe end of the intermediate web B. In this figure we have indicated aline of paste as applied at p to the intermediate sheet B, whereby thatsheet is caused to adhere near the edge to the upper web A.

In the present instance we haveindicated the upper web as scoredlongitudinally at the four points marked inFig. 2 at 11, 12, 13, and14:. The intermediate web B is shown as having one scoring-line 15 nearthe edge just beyond the pasting-line 1). The third web 0 is shownscored at two points 16 and 17. Most of these score-lines are atdifierent points in the different webs, and this is one of theadvantages of our invention, as it facilitates the production ofduplicate and triplicate sales-slips having the different sheets of suchslips scored on lines not overlying each 0ther,;as is found desirable.

To make the cross-scoring in the finished slips more easily seen by theuser to facilitate the tearing off of the coupons at the proper points,we prefer to rule the webs with a line or lines of suitable color overor closely adja cent to the scoring. By preference we rule the webs withtwo closely-adjacent lines r r on opposite sides of each score-line, asindicated in Fig. 2, except in the case of the scoring near the edge,which in the finished slips, Fig. 3, will determine the stubs, and thereindicating-lines will be unnecessary.

In the manufacture of sales-slips as heretofore conducted it has beenthe practice to print all the lines by means of line-rules in theprinting-press. In order to print the numbers on slips and on theseveral coupons of the different slips it has been necessary either toadd the numbers at a different impression from the printing of the rulesand other matter or to cut or break some of the rules in the printerschase in order to leave room enough for the insertion in the chase ofthe number ing-head, or, as a third possibility, the check sales-sliphas had to be made unduly large to allowfor the insertion of thenumbering-head in the printers chase without breaking or cutting therules for the lines.

One of the features of our present invention consists in forming all thelines which will be crosswise in the finished sales-slip by ruling theweb in continuous longitudinal lines, Fig. 4, in any suitable coloredinks. In the drawings we have shown only the top sheet as so ruled, asthat is usually sufficient for either duplicate or triplicate salesslips. These ruled lines are indicated at a" in Figs. 2 and 3 and arefor the convenience of the sales-person in making entries of addresses,items, &c., and also for spacing or separating the slip into parts orsections for the different entries. It will readily be seen that whenthe slips are passed through the press tobe printed and cut transverselyof the strip, as seen in Fig. 4, the numbers can be printed over orbetween the ruled lines and at the same impression with the rest of theprinted matter, including those line-rules which form the vertical lines3 in the finished slip, Fig. 3, or the rules which form the specialbox-spaces s. As one ruling-machine can be operated at a speedsufficient to supply material for several printing-presses, themanufacture of check-slips willthus begreatly facilitated and economizedand rendered more convenient, and, moreover, owing to this useofsuitably-colored inks for the cross-lines in the finished slips thelatter will present a far better appearance than if printed all in blackink, as usual, and if light-colored ruled lines be used the pencilentries will show more clearly on a check salesslip than where the rulesare printed black, usually quite roughly. The cross-lines being thusruled on the web will of course run out to the extreme edges of the cutslips.

By scoring (with or without pasting and ruling) and winding up into aroll the two or more webs from which duplicate or triplicate slips areto be made, as described, we can prod uce in quantity rolls or assembledwebs ready to be put onto the press and conveniently handled and withthe two or more webs in proper relation to each other. We alsofacilitate the handling of the paper in the printing-press, as it isonly necessary to mount a single roll thereon and to draw off the two ormore webs together and to pass them through the press together and thereto slice them up into the desired duplicate or triplicate checkslipsafter they have been numbered and printed.

We claim as our invention 1. As a new article of manufacture, a roll ofpaper for use in the making of check salesslips, said roll consisting oftwo or more webs of paper wound up together in a single roll, two ormore of the webs being pasted together on longitudinal lines and one ormore of the webs being scored and ruled longitudinally.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a roll of paper for use in themaking of sales-slips, said roll consisting of two or more webs wound uptogether in a single roll, one or more of the webs being scoredlongitudinally, and one or more of them being scored and ruledlongitudinally.

.As a new article of manufacture, a roll 0 of paper for use in makingsales-slips, said roll consisting of two or more webs wound up togetherin a single roll and one or more of the webs having continuouslongitudinal ruled lines. I

4. As a new article of manufacture, a roll of paper for use in makingsales-slips, said roll consisting of two or more webs wound up togetherin a single roll, one or more of the webs being scored longitudinally.

5. As a new article of manufacture, a roll of paper for use in makingsales-slips, said roll consisting of two or more webs wound up togetherin a single roll and scored longitudinally on lines not'overlying eachother in dif- 105 ferent webs.

6. As a new article of manufacture, a roll of paper for use in makingsales-slips, said roll consisting of two or more webs scoredlongitudinally and having lines ruled thereon to no identify thescore-lines.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SAMUEL snoUP. SAMUEL n. SHOUP.

Witnesses:

PRUDENCE E. MCCLURE, HOWELL ENGLAND.

